PRESS RELEASE: Swedish Police Shuts Down Pirate Bay - Again
Inskrivet av Nyhetsgruppen 6 juli, 2007 — This Friday, it became known that the Swedish Police Board will shut down The Pirate Bay, the popular file sharing site, by classifying it as a child pornog...
Feature upgrade release to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition
Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support...
Microsoft LiveStation: Slingbox Without the Box
The video above shows a demo of a new product called Livestation, a peer-to-peer live television broadcasting application build on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. This is a Microsoft Research ini...
Microsoft to Spend $1.15 Billion for Xbox Repairs
In what may be one of the costliest consumer warranty repairs in history, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it would spend up to $1.15 billion to repair failing Xbox 360 game machine consoles. — ...
Skinkers, Microsoft announce live, streaming content venture
Sometimes it seems like Microsoft just can't be happy with improving its current software lineup. Instead, the company feels the need to reinvent, or flat-out buy, what someone else has already done.
Do we really need to write our own search engine?
We asked ourselves this question more than once while working on improvements to search in March 2006. At the time, there were bigger search engines out there, including some good open source ones, t...
AMD invests $7.5 million in Transmeta
Advanced Micro Devices announced Friday a $7.5 million investment in chip designer Transmeta, strengthening the bond between the two chip companies. — As part of the investment, AMD will receive pre...
INTERVIEW-Sony has no plans to cut PS3 price
TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) has no plans to cut the price of its PlayStation3 (PS3) at present to pep up demand and counter surging sales of Nintendo's (797...
Microsoft Statement About GPLv3
A Microsoft statement about GPLv3. — Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a contracting party of GPLv3 or assuming an...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 move: What took so long?
The Xbox 360's "red ring of death" hardware failures were hardly news to video gamers. So the natural question to ask, following yesterday's news, is why Microsoft waited so long to acknowledge and a...
2008: Year of the Linux Desktop
When Evans Data released its survey on Tuesday showing a sharp shift toward Linux (and away from Windows) among developers in North America, the Linux world went wild. Wistful pengiun heads heralded ...
exclusive: rupert murdoch buys dow jones, owners of the wall street journal
Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. Negotiations are now complete and a formal announcement is expected next week. — Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion...
Comscore's Fishy Facebook Numbers
Comscore published some web site usage metrics for Facebook yesterday. While the aggregate visitor growth of 89%, year over year, from 2006 to 2007 was impressive, the demographic information was puz...
AMD: Barcelona based on customer input
Advanced Micro Devices designed Barcelona, its soon-to-be launched quad-core processor, based on feedback gathered from its customers, a senior executive said. — AMD identified four design goals cen...
IPhone Futures Prove to Be a Bad Investment
David Flashner thought he had it wired: buy two iPhones last Friday when they first went on sale, keep one and sell the other at a profit so big it would pay for most of the first one. — Mr. Flashne...
Skinkers LiveStation: P2P live TV broadcasting service demoed
In the live television streaming / placeshifting realm, Sling Media is likely the first name to come to mind, but now a new competitor is gearing up to enter the market sans the use of a box. Based o...
Video Ads: Every Startup Has A Different Solution
It may seem weird, but I've been eagerly awaiting the day when I see ads in my viral video. eMarketer expects online video advertising to nearly double in 2008 to $1.3 billion, but no one's really nai...
Auction site sells security exploits
An eBay-like auction site that sells vulnerabilities will improve security by ensuring researchers get a fair price for their work, its founders say. — "The existing business model to reward researc...
Auction site opens up for exploits, vulnerabilities
There's a new player in the exploding market for zero-day vulnerabilities — an eBay-like auction site offering a place to buy and sell flaw research information. — The Swiss-based site, called WabiS...
UPDATE: FTC Clears Microsoft's $6 Billion AQuantive Buyout
SEATTLE (AP)—Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) $6 billion acquisition of online advertising group aQuantive Inc. (AQNT) has cleared an antitrust regulatory hurdle, the companies said Friday. — The Federal Tr...
Vodafone put off by Apple's demand for big iPhone slice
Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access. — T...
Bye Bye AllOfMp3, Hello MP3Sparks
It looks like American pressure has finally worked and that Russian music download site AllOfMP3 has closed its doors. AllOfMP3 started as a small service and ran for years without hindrance, but mor...
Scammers make friends with charities
Symantec has observed an interesting trend in the world of Internet-based credit card fraud: fraudsters are donating money to charity. How could this happen? In the world of carding, where stolen cr...
Performance Issues for Yahoo
Yahoo's web sites experienced brief performance problems earlier today, with users in some areas experiencing more significant problems than others. Yahoo is one of the world's busiest web sites (cur...
My Mom Hand-Knit An iPhone
My mom was insanely cool even before she knitted an iPhone. Last week, as the hype was peaking, I braced for reports of kids across the country grabbing for their parents' new iPhones; it was a drool...
Online Music: 90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites
Online music has always been popular, and now social networks, peer recommendations and personalized radio stations are helping fans find bands faster than ever before. Here are more than 90 sites fo...
iPhone Hacking News Update: iPhoneInterface Tool is Out!!
Major Update: See iPhone Hacking News Update (Noon 7/6/07): Something Big Coming for more. — Hot on the heels of the announcement of the iPhone Activation tool, the team behind all the work on the i...
Facebook Gets an Office Suite
Facebook was originally designed around college students, and college students spend a lot of time studying and doing homework, correct? Perhaps that is the reason that Zoho, the masterminds behind o...
So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next?
What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires: — Serial entrepreneurs - keep doing t...
Clickable simplifies search ad campaigns for the masses
New York City's Clickable is a new company that fancies itself as the small company's answer for managing online search advertising campaigns. It has raised $3 million from Union Square Ventures and ...
Study: Online shoppers taking more time to hit 'buy' button
Online consumers have become relatively slow shoppers, according to a recent report on digital window shopping. — Online shoppers are now being more cautious than they were two years ago, and are ta...
EBay Chief Spurs Growth on PayPal, Beats Google Unit
EBay Inc.'s Meg Whitman is doing what most Internet chiefs can only dream of: She's beating Google Inc. in at least one corner of the Web. — In recent surveys, the world's largest auctioneer found t...
Zantaz's $375M payday, and its unfortunate back-story
Zantaz, an email archiving software firm, saw a $375 million happy ending this week, when it was purchased by Autonomy, a company that gives major companies a search engine for their Web sites. The d...
INQUIRER issues advisory re. Iphone shortages
A six-step programme for recovery — USUALLY The INQUIRER offers a hilarious, very British "sideways" look at technology, peeling away the layers to find the humorous side of silicon gates, bit rates...
Microsoft's Peter Moore on New Xbox 360 Warranties
Microsoft made many gamers happy on Thursday by deciding to universally enhance the Xbox 360 warranty program. Though the warranty has changed in the past, today is the most far reaching shift. The ...